ZAINAB FASIKI was born in Fez in 1994. Trained as a mechanical engineer, she is licensed as an illustrator and graphic novelist in her native Morocco. As an artivist fighting for women’s rights and individual freedoms, Zainab runs comic-strip workshops at universities and non-profits, both in Morocco and around the world. She is the founder of the /WOMEN POWER/ Collective, which invites female artists to participate in workshops to help nurture the next generation of artists.

In 2018 she won an Amnesty International award for women’s rights, and in 2019 she was featured as a Next Generation Leader in TIME magazine. In 2022 she won the Bravery prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.